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A Room of One's Own
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Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images...
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"Virginia Woolf's classic extended essay, first published in 1929, arguing for a world in which women can fully make use of their gifts, in a new Vintage Classics edition with an introduction by Lauren Groff"--
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Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.
In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments—such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not—Woolf analyses the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time.
First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century—and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780593688632
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 January 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Vintage Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 128
About the Author
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One's Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. About the Introducer- LAUREN GROFF is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff 's work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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